“Most war correspondents, for the first twenty-four hours, think they learn their job from movies until they get shot at.”

—  Chris Hedges

Source: On Contact: Business secrets of drug dealing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5U3eSPvfMo&t=285s RT America, November 20, 2021

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